Glenn Olds

Glenn Olds
Glenn Olds
	Portrait of Olds in 1958
Personal details
Born	February 28, 1921; Sherwood, Oregon, U.S.
Died	March 11, 2006 (aged 85); Sherwood, Oregon, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	Willamette University (BA); Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (BDiv); Northwestern University (MA); Yale University (PhD)

Glenn A. Olds (February 28, 1921 – March 11, 2006) was an American academic administrator, government official and politician. Olds was raised in Oregon and attended Willamette University.^[1] Olds served as the president of

Walter Hickel

in the early 1990s.

Electoral history

United States Senate election in Alaska, 1986

Blanket primary results

Blanket primary results^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Frank Murkowski	91,705	63.11
	Democratic	Glenn Olds	36,995	25.46
	Democratic	Bill Barnes	4,871	3.35
	Libertarian	Chuck House	4,265	2.94
	Democratic	Dave J. Carlson	4,211	2.90
	Democratic	Michael J. Bruner	1,809	1.24
	Democratic	Karl Francis	1,454	1.00
Total votes			145,310	100.00

General election results

United States Senate election in Alaska, 1986^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Frank Murkowski	97,674	54.02%	+0.34%
	Democratic	Glenn Olds	79,727	44.10%	-1.84%
	Libertarian	Chuck House	3,161	1.75%
	Write-ins		239	0.13%
Majority			17,947	9.93%	+2.17%
Turnout			180,801
	Republican hold		Swing

References

^ Dobrow, Martin, "How the FBI Tried to Block Martin Luther King’s Commencement Speech, The untold story of a government plot, a maverick college president, and the most important figure of the civil rights era" Archived 2014-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, Washington, District of Columbia, 14 June 2014.
^ "Official Results - August 26, 1986 Primary Election" (PDF). State of Alaska Division of Elections. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 25, 2016.
^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1986" (PDF). Clerk of the House of Representatives. p. 1.

External links

Martin Dobrow, "How the FBI Tried to Block Martin Luther King’s Commencement Speech", The Atlantic (June 14, 2014); extensively discussing the biography of Glenn Olds, and his involvement in this event.

Party political offices
Preceded by Clark Gruening	Class 3) 1986	Succeeded by Tony Smith

[1] Dobrow, Martin, "How the FBI Tried to Block Martin Luther King’s Commencement Speech, The untold story of a government plot, a maverick college president, and the most important figure of the civil rights era" Archived 2014-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, Washington, District of Columbia, 14 June 2014.

[2] "Official Results - August 26, 1986 Primary Election" (PDF). State of Alaska Division of Elections. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 25, 2016.

[3] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1986" (PDF). Clerk of the House of Representatives. p. 1.

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Class 2	Bartlett (1958, 1960, 1966) special ) Guess (1972) Hobbs (1978) 1984 ) 1990 ) 1996 ) 2002 ) 2014 ) Gross (2020)
Class 3	E. Gruening (1958, 1962) Gravel (1968, 1974) 1980 ) Olds ( 1986 ) 1992 ) 1998 ) 2004 ) 2010 ) 2016 )

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